A small face looms out of the gloom, bringing his red scooter to a halt just before the road. The boy, five, is on his own. Seconds later, he’s off again, calling over his shoulder, ‘I’ll meet you after the bike tunnel.’ I find him, breathing heavily, by the school gate, beaming with pride not at beating me but making the journey (more or less) alone. But his bubble is soon pricked: his face crumples after a classmate calls his exploits ‘naughty’. And heaven knows what his grandma would say!
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